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POPSBlast from the past: Global Warming Threat 2004 If you look at a globe, you'll see that the latitude of much of Europe and Scandinavia is the same as that of Alaska and permafrost-locked parts of northern Canada and central Siberia. Yet Europe has a climate more similar to that of the United States than northern Canada or Siberia. Why? It turns out that our warmth is the result of ocean currents that bring warm surface water up from the equator into northern regions that would otherwise be so cold that even in summer they'd be covered with ice. The current of greatest concern is often referred to as "The Great Conveyor Belt," which includes what we call the Gulf Stream. .................... What's almost certain is that if nothing is done about global warming, it will happen sooner rather than later. " ......... Welcome to the future folks. :-/
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POPSHow do you survive in the coldest place on Earth? This "active layer," as Mr Spector called it, is very unstable, and unless the foundations of buildings are firmly rooted deep in the permafrost below, movement in the summer will bring them crashing down. He told me that 65% of Russia sits on permafrost, and in some places in Siberia the frozen ground is 1500m deep.
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POPSEARTH is Starting to Crumble under the Strain of Climate Change For Earth this phenomenon is nothing new, but the last time it happened, few humans were around to witness it. Several studies have shown that around 10,000 years ago, as the planet came out of the last ice age, vast portions of volcanic summit cones collapsed, leading to enormous landslides. So, why can’t this warming period, which is anything but “exceptional”, be the same as before, ie, natural? The first volcanoes to go will most likely be in the Andes, where temperatures are rising fastest as a result of global warming. Any movement here could be an early sign of trouble to come elsewhere. David Pyle, a volcanologist at the University of Oxford, agrees. “This is a real risk and a particularly serious hazard along the Andes,” he says. Uh huh. If man caused global warming is supposed to be about the globe warming, then why has the Pacific coast side of the Andes cooled?
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POPSThe Pros and Cons of Global Warming in New Archaelogical Finds Norway had an organised society around the start of the dark ages, 1,500 years ago. "Our main focus is the rescue part," according to Piloe. "There are many ice patches. We can only cover a few. We know we are losing artefacts everywhere." Similar discoveries have been made in glaciers or in permafrost from Alaska to Siberia. Italy's iceman "Ötzi", killed by an arrow wound approximately 5,000 years ago, was found in an Alpine glacier, for example. (guardian uk)
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